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How the language that defined business programming REDEFINES how we approach doing it right the first time to make it fit to last: https://techchannel.com/Enterprise/02/2021/cobol-redefines #COBOL #IBMZ @IBMChampions #IBMChampion

Well, it's official: I'm the first and again the only IBM Champion for Z mainframes in Canada (see https://developer.ibm.com/champions/). I would like to challenge all of my Canadian mainframe colleagues to consider joining me in this designation. And thank you IBM! #IBMChampion #IBMZ

So, we have swear jars and pun jars and other receptacles for an excess of expression, but where's the #mainframe jar gone? https://www.share.org/blog/mainframe-jargon-and-shibboleths #IBMZ #IBMChampion #SHAREorg

Ed Jaffe talks #JES3, bourbon, music, #SHAREorg, PL/I, and living like "It's a Wonderful Life": https://techchannel.com/Trends/01/2021/ed-jaffe-jes3 #IBMZ #Mainframe Phoenix Software International

A quantum leap in mainframe championship? Subhasish Sarkar tells us how he does it all: https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/12/2020/subhasish-sarkar #IBMChampion @IBMChampions #IBMZ #Mainframe

Half full? Half empty? Nope, this Glass act is overflowing! Hear how Jeanne M. Glass M.I.M. became the first woman to found a #mainframe software company, and ...all the other ways she's helping to move our ecosystem forward: https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/11/2020/jeanne-glass #womenintech #womeninleadership #SHAREorg #ibmz See more

#Mainframe: a Legacy of Promise - my upcoming #CMGnews #CMGMainframe presentation as part of their November 10 "Mainframe and the New Normal" Virtual Conference

Herbert Daly - an IBM Z Champion, a next gen builder, and a class act: https://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/09/2020/dr-herbert-daly #IBMZ #IBMChampion #zNextGen #GSEUKC

Penguins: the tribbles of the mainframe's future? How to prepare for the mainframe's tipping point into irresistibly expanding success, part two: https://www.planetmainframe.com//the-next-frontier-when-t/ #Mainframe #ZLinux #Linux #IBMZ #zNextGen #IBMChampion

RAS+NDA+Supercompetitiveness in our Genes => the Mainframe as the Default Platform of New World Class Workloads? Part 1 of 2: https://www.planetmainframe.com//the-next-frontier-when-t/ #IBMZ #Mainframe #IBMChampion #Cloud #BigIron

One more #IBMZ #Mainframe vignette this week during the #SHAREVirtual pause: "the worst computer programming language ever devised by anybody, anywhere," according to Dr. Fred Brooks. #JCL! Can't live without it, but we don't have to like it. #JCL #IBMChampion #COBOL #FORTRAN

So, you think the #IBMZ #mainframe culture is full of shibboleth? You may be right! Here's a brief romp through some of our special words and pronunciations. #SHAREVirtual #IBMChampion #CICS

As SHARE Association turns 65, a big part of its future, #zNextGen, turns 15 this summer! As a special tribute, my friend Jim Michael recorded a song about them from the SHARE Songbook. Also pictured are founders Kristine Bastin and Iris Rivera, and myself. #SHAREVirtual #ibmchampion

As we look forward to #SHAREVirtual resuming, it seems like a good opportunity to share a brief overview of some of the people whose thinking led to the realization of the modern #IBMZ #mainframe. Longer versions of this content are available, of course. #WomenInSTEM #IBMChampion

Knowing the #SHAREVirtual pause is prone to conclude soon, I wanted to take another opportunity while I can to do more culture keeping and cheer leading with a performance of my Mainframe ABC's. #IBMChampion #IBMZ #COBOL #JCL #REXX #Mainframe #Linux #HLASM #IEFBR14

Splat splat splat? What's with #IBMZ z/OS #mainframe security wild card characters? Time to figure what's dot before you've got your *. As another culture keeping and cheer leading contribution to the #SHAREVirtual pause, I give you masking on the mainframe. #ibmchampion

It's SHARE time, and as we pause in wending our way through #SHAREVirtual, this seems like a good opportunity to do some culture keeping and cheer leading on social media. This vignette by Reg Harbeck introduces the JES2 Sing-Along tradition from the SHARE Thursday evening reception (sometimes nicknamed SCIDS).

John Mertic knows his systems, and discusses how open source is a natural part of the IBM mainframe ecosystem: https://www.ibmsystemsmag.com//2020/john-mertic-open-source #IBMZ #Mainframe #IBMChampion #Linux

Some people think the answer is 42. IBM Mainframers know PF23 is right. #TN3270 #IBMZ #Mainframe #ISPF

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. COBOL-JOKE. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 ORIGINAL-PROGRAM PIC X(16) VALUE 'WRITTEN IN 1960.'.... 01 NEW-PROGRAM REDEFINES ORIGINAL-PROGRAM. 05 FILLER PIC X(11). 05 NEW-PROGRAM-YEAR PIC 9(04). 05 FILLER PIC X. 01 FULL-DATE-TIME. 05 YEAR-NOW PIC 9(04). 05 FILLER PIC X(12). PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "I HAD A COBOL JOKE "ORIGINAL-PROGRAM. MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO FULL-DATE-TIME. MOVE YEAR-NOW TO NEW-PROGRAM-YEAR. DISPLAY "I MODIFIED IT SO NOW IT IS "NEW-PROGRAM. STOP RUN. See more

Oh the humanity! Oh the mainframe! Oh the catering and post-mortems? How music, rock star catering, and nursing led to a mainframe CIO Career for Matt Deres https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/07/2020/matt-deres. #Mainframe #IBMZ #IBMChampion @IBMChampions

From OS/2 to zNG, Marc Smith has been at the forefront of next-generation IBM computing and mainframing since 1982, and he can't stop sharing secrets - especially IT's best kept one: https://ibmsystemsmag.com/IBM-Z/6/2020/marc-smith #IBMChampion @IBMChampions #IBMZ #zNextGen

#IBMZCanada Calling all mainframers with a Canada connection of any kind! The mainframe history is deeply rooted and routed through Canada, and it's time to let each other and the world know the connections! https://www.ibmsystemsmag.com//05/2020/canadian-mainframers #IBMChampion @IBMChampions #IBMZ

The Mainframe future is built with excellent technology, community, education, and mentoring. How IBM Champions and SHARE come together to support and advance the mainframe ecosystem: https://www.share.org//ibm-z-champions-mentor-and-build-co #IBMChampion #IBMZCanada #IBMZ #Mainframe

#COBOL and #CICS make the world economy go round, and #ibmchampion Ezriel Gross has been part of it since his career began. He tells us about the fun and fascinating features of a CICS career on #IBMZ: https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Trends/05/2020/ezriel-gross @IBMChampions @Rocket #mainframe

With all the discussion of the need for new people for "legacy" computing, here are some still-relevant documents about Mainframe Continuity Planning: #ibmz #mainframe #cobol #IBMChampion